Anyone else playing Faster Than Light?

http://www.ftlgame.com/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/21268 ... uggest__13

Ridiculously addictive!

I am but I'm struggling to make good progress. I just don't seen to able to obtain enough resources to be able to do anything useful with.

I got through to the final sector once so far, suffice to say I got absolutely pwned.

One boarding party or well-placed fire can ruin your whole day, which is one of the things that makes the game so compelling IMO.

amazing game this, highly suggest you avoid easy difficulty as its meant to be played on normal

I have a love/hate thing going with FTL.

It's very addictive, but every time you look like making decent progress, you get hit with some kind of catastrophic event. Like an ion storm that wipes out your power and offensive weapons, whilst leaving the enemy relatively unscathed.

Seems to be fires or boarding parties for me. Also when you finally get three shields the enemy suddenly has a million burst lasers or missile weapons.

I did manage to win a battle by starving the enemy of oxygen once. It's completely sadistic, but I took great pleasure in watching those little bastards suffocate, desperately trying to repair the oxygen whilst running to and from the medbay.

On the few occasions I have managed to build up my ship into a formidable weapon, oxygen has been my downfall; and not always in a fair manner.

Once the enemies had a weapon pre-charger, which enables them to fire off a volley immediately (without waiting for the guns to power up). The first volley damaged my O2, killed the door controls and vented me into space! All six crewmen died trying to fix it - two by two, ferrying back and forth from the medbay (as you mentioned) - the O2 controls were too far away, and I had to turn them back before getting there.

I have managed to get to the final sector three times, twice meeting the end boss, before getting my backside handed to me.

The game doesn't seem properly balanced at times, yet there are times when it seems perfect. Regardless, I love it, despite wishing it had save points.

I'm assuming you try to lure the boarding parties to the medbay, to fight them?

I keep losing my starting crew one at a time and then it becomes tough. I am unable to recruit more crew.

Argh!

Got to the final boss battle, we both have one HP left, I manage to get the final shot in and destroy the enemy! But no, wait, it jumps away!? WTF?

Suffice to say I got absolutely pwned in "round 2".

This is just before what I mistakenly thought was victory:



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I got to the boss level last night again.

In round one, I really ripped into him and he was missing a wing and bugging out in no time.
Round two - it was like the Borg had taken over, my lasers were ineffective and I'd used most of my missiles in round one. I got spanked.

sounds like a lot of you are doing it wrong, more crew is definatly recommended, I usually get about 4 or 5 early, try respond to distress calls and do as many scenarios as you can before warping to next bit, theres a mega rare species which you can obtain, Fires shoudn't be a problem, if its THAT bad then double click the "open doors" button and it will open every single door then fire all gone then quickly close before all the 02 vanishes

That might be my problem.

also considering choice of ship too Ive only unlocked one so far